Tom, Tim, The carbody is a good starting point for other SFRD kitbashes. Unless modeling a car requiring later Dreadnaught ends, the die work on the sides is excellent with nothing to carve off before

John, Northern Arizona had at verious times some logging shortlines that interchanged with the Santa Fe around Flagstaff, so, depending on your timeframe, that gives you the option of having a shortli

I remember in the mid late 60's hobby shops were dropping trains since nobody was buying "train sets" anymore, they just wanted slot cars. Finding anything but basic model railroad supplies was dificu

Dave, I recently bough these directly from Tichy, They are supplied with molded plastic wheelsets, which I substituted with IM 33" wheels. The resulting rolling qualities are outstanding. Tom C Hi Lis

Bill, Which came first IMWX cars of the Gould (later Tichy) cars? I thought the Gould cars camme first. Tom Casey The seminal styrene kit I think it could be argued was the "Innovative Model Works" 19

Andrew, Great news & good luck in clearing out the backlog. Many of us look forward to placing new orders. Tom Casey. Hello the group. My name is Andrew Dahm and I have taken over the Westerfield Mode

Steve, I know exactly what you mean. I have three that are about 90% complete, and also would buy more if they were available. One went through Ebay a few months ago and the final price was pretty hig

Richard, Pierre, Right you are! If anybody thinks that solid bearings are obsolete technology, think again. Anything driven by a crankshaft has solid bearings; from a formula 1 race car to diesel loco

For years I dealt with a guy who did nearly the same thing. He had a working arrangement with two local hobby shops owned by some guys who weren't "train savy", more like RC airplane/slot car/plastic

Great! .....must bring money,...... must bring money..... (sung to the same tune as Homer Simpson's "DOUGHNUTS....") tOM cASEY He will be there. harlie Slater To: STMFC@... rom: pa.bizier@

Charles, Looks a lot like the CB&Q GS gon that Sunshine has/had available. Tom Casey Charles As well as 2000 composite GA's, the Burlington had six classes of composite GS gondolas totalling about 750

Group, Can anybody point me in the correct direction for photo or tech data on MOW crane information, i.e. 200T 260T Industrial mfr cranes? Thanks in advance! Tom Casey Reply to sender | Reply to grou

MIke, Make sure you get the RC car with the correct end for your needs. I think these are the old IMWX cars and came with "square corners" and "W corners", which are the more rounded off corners. Tom

Ashley. If by chance you model the Milwaukee Rd, could that car plausible wound up in MOW service? Tom Casey Sorry, should have thought of that. Doh! Kit #2501 Milwaukee RR 303000 to 310624 from vario

To which one could add view "builder's portraits" with suspicion as well. Tom Casey

Well, to look at it another way, if you had ordered cars from the list for Lisle when it first came out, it's likely you'd still be waiting for them. Go to the show, and you've got a "retail" environm

Also, I noticed that the freight cars on both car floats appear to have either early Janey couples, or a very late example of link & pin draft gear. Tom Casey Guys, what a great photo! Do my eyes dece

I'd like to see a state of the art four bay offset side quad hopper. With either optional full taper or chisel side taper sides, Something along the level of detail that the I/M 70 covered hopper or t

Clark, Sounds like what you're describing is the ASF A3 truck that was developed for the Santa Fe Rr-32's, which originally had separate sideframes & bolster. When these have the I/M metal wheels, the

Jared, Mine probably isn't the mixed you saw in the past, but I've used Floquil's "Old Silver" and given it a light overspray of Grimy Black Tom Casey Some time ago I got a paint mix for galvanized me